Posted: 10/21/2007 1:28 AM
Post subject: Extreme-G 2
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emu
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Location: Germany, Munich
Extreme G2 is probably the second fastest racing game for the N64 after F-Zero. I personally like the game play of the first part way more, however the possibility of precise steering, the fact, that simply driving a turn without touching the wall speeds significantly up and breaking the sound barrier make it an interesting candidate for a tas. Optimising this game is very difficult (like most racing games), so I'm only doing a test tas of the small GP (4 tracks) for the few people who actually played this game, players who motivates this movie to make an actual tas and mostly to occupy my mind. In hindsight, I should not have picked the bike with the best max speed (worst acceleration), as deceleration can't be avoided at ramps and points with a high change of acclivity. But maybe the next tracks will be better, I'll post the movie file, when it is finished. (rerecords something around 2-3000) edited youtubevideo of the first track
Posted: 10/21/2007 5:17 AM
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Dromiceius
Joined: 10/3/2005
Posts: 1332
Cool. Um... pardon my laziness, but I didn't catch the track name or your final time. How did you do compared to the world record?
Posted: 10/21/2007 4:31 PM
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Titus_Kwok
Joined: 4/30/2006
Posts: 480
Location: the secret cow level
Are there any powerups in this one that increase speed? I know the first one had that big jet engine thingy that shot fire behind you and increased your speed a little.
Posted: 10/21/2007 11:14 PM
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emu
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Track times are 58:38, 56:53 and ~56:30, which is somewhere near the wr with the super bike spectre (56:60). None super bike records seem to be somewhere around 1'06. By the way, thanks for the link. I could not find much information about that game and these records are very interesting. I underestimated the importance of acceleration, as I thought the only cause of decelerations are walls. However, ramps and other stuff also slow down a lot. As I won't submit it anyway, I'll restart with spectre/no bike via password and hope that I can go past sonic speed a little bit more^^ With the password I can also access meltdown, which allows me to drive all 12 tracks in one GP. According to gamefaqs.com smoke and flame exhaust give little/greater speed. Despite having read about that before, I never really noticed a big difference while playing. I'll still try to get them, if possible. Of course, there are also nitros on the way (red "N" on the floor), that give boosts similar to a regular nitro.
Posted: 10/23/2007 1:58 AM
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Comicalflop
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Speedy TAS of 2009
TBH, I wasn't that impressed with this game nor this demo WIP, sorry. Count me out for "avid WIP watcher".
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Posted: 10/27/2007 6:40 PM
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DarkPlayer
Joined: 1/30/2006
Posts: 7
@emu the vid is not bad, but also not very impressive with that slow bike on the first track i would really like to see what you can do with Spectre ;-) by the way, the link to the times page posted above is a bit outdated http://www.geocities.com/n64highscores/ExtremeG2Times.html http://www.geocities.com/n64highscores/ExtremeG2Times2.html (i'm winfried merdes over there ^^ )